Want to unlock the power that VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) adds to Microsoft's Excel? Want to do that quickly? Want to make Excel soar without the use of chunky embedded formulas? Want to make Excel act as a drawing program? Need Excel to take over repetitive project management chores? Want Excel to manipulate audio and graphics files you wish to add?

If you answered yes to any of the above. This book is for you!

Published in 2003 this book covers the art of television done on location. From single camera and truck ENG remote "live shots" up to the largest remotes, the Olympics, Super Bowl and the Indianapolis 500. The book investigators all phases of remote production, from initial planning and surveys right through final production checkout and the show itself. In addition the book covers the history and technology that make this segment of the industry possible.

Published in 2000 this book covered the DTV transition as it stood at the brink of our transition to ATSC. The book cut through the rampant hyperbole of digital television, and capitalized on the field's real technical opportunities. From the A to D de-encoding to DSP (processing) back to D to A encoding, this book covered the theory, and more importantly the practical side of maintaining and handling digital audio and video.

In addition the book covered some of the myths about digital still propagated today. Claims that all will be digital, digital either works or it doesn't, your analog skills will be worthless, ATM, Firewire, and Fibre Channel will solve all your problems, you can't slowly degrade a digital signal, and that digital video must always be better quality than NTSC. These weren't true then, and still are not true today.

Broadcast Engineering Articles by Jim Boston